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A61898	For the king and both houses of Parliament who are desired to read over this following treatise and in the fear and wisdom of the pure holy God to consider, and lay to heart what is contained therein and in tender bowels of compassion to repair the great breaches that are made all over the nation : and to grant a speedy redress, now, while it is in your power / given forth in the spirit of love and meekness and written by John Stubbs.	Stubbs, John, 1618?-1674.	1670 (1670)	Wing S6070; ESTC R42228	9,757	20

FOR THE King and both Houses OF PARLIAMENT Who are desired to read over this following Treatise and in the Fear and Wisdom of the pure holy God to consider and lay to heart what is contained therein And in tender Bowels of Compassion to Repair the great Breaches that are made all over the Nation And to grant a Speedy Redress now while it is in your power Given forth in the Spirit of Love and Meekness And written by John Stubbs Blessed are the Mercifull for they shall obtain Mercy Matth. 5. Printed in the Year 1670. For the King and hoth Houses of Parliament ALL ye that go under the Name of Christians which are after Christ and not after Old Adam in the Fall Christs command to such is to love Enemies Matth. 5.44 then not to destroy them So not one Christian to destroy another about Religion for Christ came not to destroy mens lives but to save them Luke 9.54.55 And God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son into the World not to destroy the World but that the World through him might have life John 3.16 17. The Devil is called a Destroyer Rev. 9.11 and Jesus a Saviour Matth. 1.20 And was not Cain the first that persecuted his Brother about Religion Gen. 4. And are ye not all Brethren Matth. 23.8 first as you are in Adam secondly as you are in Christ Jesus and Sons of God by creation and Sons of God by adoption and therefore why should you destroy one another who are of the Image of God for all look upon Cain that he was a wicked man that persecuted his Brother to death about Religion And you know the Scripture saith He that envies his Brother is a man-slayer 1 Iohn 3. and no man-slayer hath Eternal Life abiding in him and therefore love one another for love is of God and he that loveth not is not of God and he that hateth his Brother abideth in death so he cannot be in Christ the Life see the Epistles of John And he that is born of the Flesh will persecute him that is born of the Spirit Gal. 4.29 and therefore cast forth that birth that will persecute for he that is born of the Spirit cannot joyn with that Spirit that is born of the Flesh for if he could he should not be persecuted It s mighty strange that Christ Jesus and his Apostles should command so much for Christians to love one another who saith If they have the gift of Healing and Prophesies and divers kinds of Tongues and interpretation of Tongues c. 1 Cor. 12.10 And if they have not love they are but like sounding Brass or a tinkling Cymbal So what is all Christendom that doth hate and persecute one another about Religion but like the sounding Brass and tinkling Cimbals though they have Gifts and Tongues and want love And though they give their goods to feed the poor and their bodies to be burned yet if they have not love they are but tinckling Cymbals 1 Cor. 13. And doth not Christ say Let the Tares and the Wheat grow together until the Harvest he knew men would be busie to meddle with that they should not do and therefore he forbids to meddle lest they should pluck up the Wheat with the Tares Matth. 13.30 38 c. And also you know how Christ in that Parable reproved him that took his Brother by the Throat Matth. 18.28 and tells the Jews in Matth. 21. of their perfecution in that Parable of the Housholder how that he had sent out his Servants to the Husbandman and how they beat one and killed another and stoned another and at last he sent unto him his Son saying They will reverence my Son But they caught him and cast him out of the Vineyard and slew him also and so what became of those Husbandmen And are not the Sheep on the right hand but the Goats on the left hand that persecutes and that doth not visit Christ in Prison in his Members who were sick who were hungry who were naked and they did not visit him And if they went into everlasting Punishment that did not visit him in Prison what will become of them that casts into Prison where he is made manifest and suffers for his Sake See Math. 25. And so in the Light and Fear of God consider these things before it be too late in your day and in the Bowelsand Mercies of Christ Jesus lay things to Heart And be not spurred on by the chief Priests and Bishops to Persecution for was it not the Priests and false Prophets that stirred up the Kings and Princes against Jeremiah to cast him into Prison and into the Dungeon And what became of those Priests and false Prophets And also What became of the King and Princes that were stirred up by them when Nebuchadnezar came and found Jeremiah in prison See Jeremiah chap. 37 38. and 43. And was it not the false Prophets that stirred up Ahah against Micaiah 1 King 22.24 c. And was it not Amaziah the Priest of Bethel that stirred up Jeroboam King of Israel against Amos and said he had spoken Treason against the King Amos 7.10 And was it not the chief Priests and Elders that stirred up the Magistrates and people against Christ as you may read in the Evangellists And how they perswaded Pilate to Crucifie Jesus the Son of the Living God who is the Original of Christianity And did not Christ say That they should hale the Disciples out of their Synagogues John 16.2 And the chief Priests and Pharisees should be against Christ Jesus And did not Christ Weep over Jerusalem and tell them That the Blood of Abel to Zacharias would come upon that Generation Mat. 23.35 36 37. And as you may read in the latter end of the four Evangelists what Counsels the chief Priests had with the Elders to raise up Accusations against Jesus and said he was against Casar And was not the chief Priests his greatest Enemy from his Birth to the very day of his Crucifixion and was it not the chief Priests that cryed out all at once saying Away with this man and release unto us Barrabas John 23.18 And did not the chief Priests and the Scribes Mock him saying He saved others himself he cannot save Mark 15.31 And when they had Crucified him was it not the chief Priests and Pharisees that came unto Pilate Mathew 27.62 Saying Sir we remember that that Deceiver said while he was yet alive After Three Dayes I will Rise again Command therefore that the Sepulere be made sure until the 3d day least his Disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the People he is risen from the dead so the last error shall be worse then the first And when he was risen did not the chief Priests perswade the Souldiers to say That his Disciples had stole him away by night Matth. 28.13 And it was the chief Priests with the Elders that gave

large mony to the Souldiers to say so vers 12. And so all along throughout Matthew Mark Luke John you may see it was the chief Priests that were Christs greatest Enemies not the meanest of them but the chief and so it is now Do not the Bishops and Prebends and chief of the Priests stir up Persecution now against the people of God Did not Christs words come to pass upon the Jews and upon Jerusalem when Titus came against them about forty years after Christs Ascension And was it not by the chief Priests Order and Authority that Saul went with his Packet of Letters to hale those that were Believers and Followers of Christ to prison Acts 9. And do they not do so now with their Paraters and Informers by order from their Bishops and chief Priests Now consider these things in the tender Bowels and Mercies of God for we would not have the Magistrates ridden upon nor spurred up by the chief Priests nor Bishops to persecution but we would have them provoked to love and good works that they may be a praise to them that do well and a Terror to the Evil Doer Rom. 13. And was it not the high Priest that examined Stephen when the false Witnesses came against him where you know he was stoned death Acts 7. And was it not the chief Priests and Elders that caused the Apostles to be whipped so as you may see in the Acts all along And you may see there how much the chief Priests were against the Apostle Paul after he was converted and had forsaken them and followed Christ Jesus who is a Priest for ever made higher then the Heavens Hebr. 7.26 And so all along you may see in every Age since the Pope got up how Persecution hath been stirred up by the Priests In the other Powers dayes Did not the Priests give Oliver high titles and the Presbyterian Priests and Independants made Petitions and Addresses to him for Pesecution And then in his Son Richards dayes Did not the Presbyterian Priests and Independants petition against us that we might be persecuted and called him their Ioshua So that many thousands of our Friends in his time were imprisoned besides the unreasonable havock they made in spoiling of their goods and about forty suffered Death in that day by cruel imprisonments but the Lord hath been our Preserver and Helper who had no Helper in the Earth whom ever since we were a People the Priests of all sorts would have rooted us out of the Earth Therefore we would desire for your eternal good to consider these things For Caesar that is the Magistrate must have his due which is the Tribute and Custom and God must have his due that is the Rule in the Conscience and in the heart and his Worship that is in Spirit and Truth Iohn 14.24 Now concerning Liberty MOses who was a Magistrate and a Judge and a Prophet he did not restrain others from Prophesying but said Oh that all the Lords People were Prophets Numb 11.29 He did not say It would destroy the Government if they did preach in the Camp He did not say It would make Riots and Routs but said Oh that all the Lords People were Prophets Abraham dwelt among the Canaanites a long time yet contrary to them in Religion Gen. 13.7 and 16.13 again he sojourned in Gerar and King Abimeleck gave him leave to dwell in his Land Gen. 20.21 23 24. And also Isaac had Liberty to sojourn in those parts Gen. 26. But you do not read that they were forced by them with whom they sojourned to be of their Religion Jacob lived twenty years in one House with his Uncle Laban yet differed in Religion Gen. 31. Neither was Lot forced to the Sodomites Religion Neither do you read any of the Pharaohs during the Children of Israels sojourning there Exodus 12. forced them to be of their Religion but it was his own oppressing mind to set them at work that made him to keep them there and so he would not let them go forth to worship God till the Ten Plagues came upon him Neither did any of the Emperors compel the Israelites to be of their Religion during their seventy years Captivity And 〈◊〉 he encouraged the Jews to build a Temple though he was different concerning their Religion And Darius and Cyrus see their tenderness though they were Heathens they were tender to the Jews and gave them Liberty to worship the God of Heaven though there were many that did inform against them and said Their City had been a Rebellious City Ezra 4.12.15 And the three Children in Nebuchadnezars time were persecuted because they would not joyn nor fall down to worship that great Image they made read Daniel So what was of man and mans making man was not to fall down to that because it was the work of mans hands and have they not been making Religions ever since the Papists got up And doth not the pure Religion come down from above from God which all is to fall down to and worship which is in Spirit and Truth Jam. 1.27 And Daniel he had Liberty to worship God in Babylon though his worship were contrary to the Emperors and and prayed as at other times notwithstanding the Emperors Decree till those wicked Informers rose up against him but mark their end see Daniel 6. And so its very much how people that are called Christians can say the Lords Prayer that are so full of envy and say Forgive us as we forgive them that trespass against us and have so much enmity and hatred in their hearts one against another Do they think to be forgiven that do not forgive Doth not Christ say they must be reconciled to their Brother before they can offer their Gifts to God Matth. 5. And what have they against those people called Quakers but in matters concerning their God and because they pray to God and worship him in Spirit and Truth in that Worship that Christ himself set up above sixteen hundred years ago see J●● 4.20 21 c. Do not the Quakers love Enemies Matth. ● 44 Do they not bear all things 1 Cor. 13.7 Are they not the best Tenants that the great men in the Nation have And do they not deal truely with you in their Shops and Merchandizing and in then Commerce are they not at one word with you Why should they be chased and coursed up and down like a Partridge upon the Mountains And why should the Priests and Bishops be against them Is it not only because we cannot pay them Tythes And is not the Priesthood changed that took Tythes and the Commandment disannull'd that gave him his Tythes read Hibrews 7. And doth not Christ say to his Ministers Embassadors Teachers and Disciples Freely ye have received freely give Matth. 10. And he bids them Go into all Nations and he would be with them and if he be with them that 's enough then they need neither to seek for Bag nor Scrip.